The death took place here today at the age of 69 of Grigory Grossman, for many years a leading figure in Russian journalism. Before the war he was the Berlin correspondent of the “Russkija Wedemosti”, contributing also to most of the important Russian reviews and periodicals. He was an old Social Democrat and took an active part in the movement. During the war he lived in Copenhagen, and after the war, when the Bolshevik Revolution broke out, he joined the Bolsheviks, and acted in Berlin as the correspondent of the official Soviet news agency, the “Rosta”, now known as the “Tass”, and of the “Pravda”.
Grossman took no part in Jewish life, but he was a respected member of the Russo-Jewish colony in Berlin, and he showed considerable interest in the work of the Jewish students there.
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